AlexAndAHalf

Hey guys, relatively new to paint.net here and I've got a question. I work with calligraphy, and I saw something that someone did on the internet recently and I was wondering if paint.net had this ability. Sorry for the poorly cropped pictures. I screenshotted these from a video and it was the best I could do! The first picture is the handwritten text that this person made, and then the second picture is what he somehow turned it in to. Obviously to change the color scheme he must have scanned it into his computer and done something, but I don't know what! I've been working in a program called Inkscape for my calligraphy needs because it can trace the bitmap of my writing and then I can change the color and whatnot, but I really like how whatever this guy did retained the whole hand-made look of his text. Tracing the bitmap makes it look much more digitized. Anyone have any idea how he managed to change the color of his text while keeping it so crisp and maintaining the hand-drawn look? If it can't be done in paint.net, where can it be done? Thanks guys!

toe_head, I downloaded Inkscape because I wanted to make sure I could replicate what you did, and I started with the original image. I traced the bitmap, but when I try to fill it in with yellow, I'm left with a (non-pixelated!) black border around the part that I use the paint bucket on. Any ideas on what I need to adjust to fix that?

Wow, guys! Thanks so much! I'll definitely look into Inkscape, any advice is good advice right now when I'm breaking into all this fresh

Hey there, so I'm entirely new to this program and honestly to graphic design in general. I need some help figuring out why the magic wand tool isn't doing exactly what I'm aiming for and any advice would be MUCH appreciated Alright, so my buddy has a food truck called Cheese Cubed where he sells gourmet grilled cheeses (yes, I know, delicious) and I work with calligraphy so I drew him up a little logo to throw on a sticker. I scanned the logo in a 600 DPI, and it will be the picture attached here. So what I want to do with this is select the word "Cheese" and the number 3 and turn them yellow. I also wanted to select the word "Cubed" and the banner outline and fill them in with a solid black, just to kind of digitize them if that makes sense. I wanted to eliminate the color variation that can be seen and make the logo look as if it were done on a computer rather than with brush pens. I figured I would use the magic wand to select the bodies of black and just fill them in with yellow. This was done with a brush pen, so there is some color value differentiation, thus, I turned up the tolerance to 50%. This worked decently, but there is still a pixely black outline around everything. I turned the tolerance up further, and while this did get rid of the black around the now-yellow words, there's still a distinct border of jagged pixels around everything. I'll also attach pictures of the pixely black and just-plain-pixely outlines. The second attached picture has a 50% tolerance on the Cheese and the 3, the second picture has a 65% tolerance on the Cheese and 3 (notice the black is gone, but the outline is still pixelated) and a 47 tolerance on the black banner outline (notice the extreme border pixelation). Essentially, whenever I try to select anything with the magic wand and color it in, regardless of the tolerance, it's creating a pixely outline around my selection. What's the problem here? EDIT: The pixelation doesn't look as bad on the attached pictures as it does in my Paint.net window, but I'd still like some tips on how I can smooth out the edges and make it look more digitized, especially on that black banner outline, that thing still looks pretty pixelated around the edges.